The Archive · 1938

Jew Kills Self

Mr. Chun Bing-him — Tribute Paid to Friend

New Anti-Semitic Laws Of the Community Explained; Czech State A well attended memorial service Also to Oust All Jews was held yesterday afternoon in the Huchow Club, Kweichow Road, in Budapest, Dec. 23. honour of the late Mr. Chun Bing-Dr. Leon Liebermann, famous him,' compradore of Burkill & Sons Jewish eye specialist, committed Lid., Canton Road, who died in Macao Suicide today shortly after publication in August of this year at the venerable of the new anti-Semitic laws promul-age of 77. The meeting was presided gü&ted in Hungary. He was found over by a presidium of prominent dead, with a bullet through his brain, foreign and Chinese business leaders. and was lying sprawled across the After introductory remarks made text of the new laws. His wife found by Mr. Gockson Kwok, a member of the body. The deceased was 55 years the presidium, several speeches were old.—Havas. made by foreign and Chinese friends of late well known Cantonese business Hungarian Laws Explained leader praising him for his patriotic Budapest, Dec. 24. spirit and his success in business. Tt Commenting to press representa-was revealed by one Chinese speaker tives on the newly announced Jewish that the late Mr. Chun would never laws, the Hungarian Minister of have gone to Macao had it not been Justice, Count Tasnady-Nagy, declared for the changed situation in Shangha: that "since the passing of the first Memorial pamphlets printed in the Jewish laws the international situation Chinese language were distributed at as regards Jews has changed in a the meeting and the "Pu Yi Band" manner that affects Hungary as well played the mourning music for the as other countries." large gathering. A member of the "Before this law was, introduced,"

Chun family made a short speech he said, "Germany was the only coun-thanking those present.

Among those try to take energetic action against serving on the presidium were Messrs "the Jews.. Similar measures were Vu Ya-ching G. E. Mitchell, G. F. then taken by several other smaller Andrew, W. Mellor, Ling Kung-hou, Hates. "We can therefore sey we are Gockson Kwok, L. T. Yuan, Yang now encircled by a mighty Mei-nan, Ching Chun-cheng and. Wang about 300,000,000 people all of w! m Bing-yen. are endeavouring to force the Jews in the direction of least resistance. Unless we take adequate and timely precautions, our country will Fe flooded. B "Our experiences with the first Jewish laws were of the worst kind. Up, to the present time the declarations of over 150 firms have been examined and of these only a single One was correct in every detail." "Hungary he concluded, could not "aca to disregard the fact that with ie reunion of the northern district to Hungary, her Jewish population had increased decidedly, this in itself rendering appropriate measures essential—Trans-Ocean,

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